Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & brothers, 1851 - 429 pages |
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... thought struck me , that , as the hill is called Camp - mount , there might , probably , be some re- mains of ditches and mounds , with which I have read that camps were surrounded . And I really believe I discovered something of that ...
... thought struck me , that , as the hill is called Camp - mount , there might , probably , be some re- mains of ditches and mounds , with which I have read that camps were surrounded . And I really believe I discovered something of that ...
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... thoughts visible . Now came still Evening on , and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad . The melancholy days have come , the saddest of the year , Of wailing winds , and naked woods , and meadows brown and sere ...
... thoughts visible . Now came still Evening on , and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad . The melancholy days have come , the saddest of the year , Of wailing winds , and naked woods , and meadows brown and sere ...
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... thought can reach , or science can define ; & c . Rhyme completed . Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue , Than ever man pronounced or angel sung ; Had I all knowledge , human and divine , That thought can reach or science can ...
... thought can reach , or science can define ; & c . Rhyme completed . Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue , Than ever man pronounced or angel sung ; Had I all knowledge , human and divine , That thought can reach or science can ...
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... thought is sufficiently pre- served in all the changes suggested . * * Under the head of variety of expression , may be noticed some few peculiarities and improprieties , which are sometimes heard , especially in colloquial intercourse ...
... thought is sufficiently pre- served in all the changes suggested . * * Under the head of variety of expression , may be noticed some few peculiarities and improprieties , which are sometimes heard , especially in colloquial intercourse ...
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... thought as uncouth in a drawing - room , as the ploughman to whose rude use it is abandoned . † Thus , the word * One of the most distinguished orators and writers of the present age is remarkable for the Saxon force and purity of his ...
... thought as uncouth in a drawing - room , as the ploughman to whose rude use it is abandoned . † Thus , the word * One of the most distinguished orators and writers of the present age is remarkable for the Saxon force and purity of his ...
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Page 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 401 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Page 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.